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IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR MAHUPAGTURE Mil Pfifilfi 9;." Est? 1.

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TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Ronni-ANDREWS, of the city and county of Milwaukee, and fatate of Wisconsin, hove invented a. new and improved Composition for Preserving, Softening, and Improving Leather; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof:

I. The nature of my invention consists in preparing certain oils and other substances, and combining them in such a manner and in such proportions. as to make a composition differing in its nature entirely from either of the materials used, and capable of producing an effect upon leather entirely different from and adverse to the eflect produced by any one of the. niaterinls, if applied alone. It is intended to he need upon leather either in the process of manufacturing, or ofter it is wrought into articles for consumption. The effect which it is intended to produce upon the leather is to render it soft and pliable, and also more tough and durable; and also to overcome the 'efi'ect which the astringent materielsused in tanning produhes upon the run hides. The composition consists of the following materials, in the following proportions and quantities, viz, one gallon of linseed oil, one gallon of meets-foot oil, one quarter of a pound of the oil of tar, ten pounds of tellow, one pound of beeswax.

Preparation. II. These articles are hoiled together for the space of twenty or thirty minutes.

Use.

III. This composition is used hy applyingit to the leather with a sponge or brush, in eufiicient quantities to fill the pores of the skin.

IV. My invention is the composition, to wit, the discovery that by boiling together one gallon of linseed oil, one gallon of neats-foot oil, one quarter of a pound of oil of tar, ten pounds of tollow, one pound of beeswax, therewill be produced a. mixture and compound" which will produce efiects upon leather never known before to be produced by any other material.

'W'lmt I'llesire a. patent for, is-

Making the composition out of the materials named, in the manner named, and to secure to me the right of using such a composition, and of applying it to leather in the process of manufacture, or after it is manufactuned, and to all articles nluuleof leather, disclniming everything but the composition. 4

RGBERT ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

Ronnm' N. AUSTIN, Guns. 0. Rmmoxn. 

